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Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by gus_massa »

macromaniac wrote: post #45
gus_massa wrote: post #7

Sometimes my mind wanders until I decide I want a "01" and I tap on the "01" tile at the bottom to select it. If the "01" is alredy selected, it switchs to the "02". But I tapped the "01" to select the "01" in spite it's already selected! (I have the same problem with the "02".) My recomendation is to change the logic of the selection at the bottom. Instead of switching each time, I'd like that if I tap on the left b…

I will try to fix this, sounds frustrating. Most likely I will change the default to what yall suggest and keep the way it works now as a settings option just for me because my muscle memory can't handle the change ha.

Just in case: Nice game!

I played the new set today, and I think the balance between the 01 and 02 is very good and make the puzzles very interesting.

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by lanternfish »

execat wrote: post #52
lanternfish wrote: post #48

If you like this style of puzzle, I highly recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles on android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... ). It has implementations of a dozen or so puzzles including a domino puzzle not unlike this one. And it has no ads or microtransactions to boot.

I love this. The app is less than 4MB and with so many puzzle types!

I see it as a kind of "perfect app" in that it does what it sets out to do very well and does exactly nothing else. If only all mobile games were the same...

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by fragmede »

lanternfish wrote: post #48

If you like this style of puzzle, I highly recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles on android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... ). It has implementations of a dozen or so puzzles including a domino puzzle not unlike this one. And it has no ads or microtransactions to boot.

Simon Tatham's puzzles are also available on the web on his site:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by V__ »

fragmede wrote: post #63
lanternfish wrote: post #48

If you like this style of puzzle, I highly recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles on android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... ). It has implementations of a dozen or so puzzles including a domino puzzle not unlike this one. And it has no ads or microtransactions to boot.

Simon Tatham's puzzles are also available on the web on his site: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Some time ago I found this implementation: https://medmunds.github.io/puzzles/ I think it has a more pleasant ui.

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by navane »

I played it a couple of days and it's great. I agree about the selecting the different tiles, it's not the smoothest but it's very easy to understand how that works. The whole puzzle really explains itself well with the numbers turning green. I love how I'm building a set of heuristics (this space only fits a horizontal, if I need X points on a vertical, I need doubles...) in my mind to solve these puzzles step by step, just like with a sudoku, but very much it's own.

Maybe tapping on the left selects the left piece, right the right, and middle toggles? But that's just booked shedding. Great, polished puzzle!

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by murray-buttchin »

Is there only one possible solution for each board? Today I felt like deriving contradictions was a lot harder today than usual, but I still ended up with the correct answers.

I think there should be a way to mark dominos as "confirmed" vs "guesses", because not everyone is going to have working memory to remember which tiles laid down are "guesses" for deriving contradictions.

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by recursive »

murray-buttchin wrote: post #67

Is there only one possible solution for each board? Today I felt like deriving contradictions was a lot harder today than usual, but I still ended up with the correct answers. I think there should be a way to mark dominos as "confirmed" vs "guesses", because not everyone is going to have working memory to remember which tiles laid down are "guesses" for deriving contradictions.

Today, the last puzzle had at least two solutions. I'd prefer that the puzzles were always unambiguous.

Re: Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle

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Post by chrispine »

macromaniac wrote: post #45
gus_massa wrote: post #7

Sometimes my mind wanders until I decide I want a "01" and I tap on the "01" tile at the bottom to select it. If the "01" is alredy selected, it switchs to the "02". But I tapped the "01" to select the "01" in spite it's already selected! (I have the same problem with the "02".) My recomendation is to change the logic of the selection at the bottom. Instead of switching each time, I'd like that if I tap on the left b…

I will try to fix this, sounds frustrating. Most likely I will change the default to what yall suggest and keep the way it works now as a settings option just for me because my muscle memory can't handle the change ha.

Looking forward to this change! I am constantly switching to the wrong piece by clicking on the piece I want when it's already selected.

Another thing that would help me is if it showed a ghosted image of where the piece will be before I place it (like Starcraft, Age of Empires, and a million other games do). If you had that, I would never place the wrong piece accidentally, or accidentally in the wrong place.

Great game, really fun!

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